My happy place! I love the beach and just being there makes me happy.
My favorite part today was people watching with my BFF and enjoying the kids just playing. It was sunny and windy so I was a bit cold and wore a sweatshirt the entire day.
Today I saw the beach as a place to build and create and connect. There are free, unlimited building materials everywhere and mixing sand and water is magical. I’ve never thought of it this before this way but today, watching the kids from 0-60 build and play and run and laugh made me smile. There was unlimited entertainment.
Our kids loved bringing big shovels and digging deep holes, making a man cave and a place to sit and hide.
An older gentleman spent hours building a sand bridge. He was like the pied piper, with people coming around to see what he was doing.
Teens were jumping in the waves and then resting and digging for sand crabs, all together in a row.
Our kids were making soccer fields and soccer hole goals and boundary lines and then playing a game together. They used their boogie boards for the back of the soccer goals and played and ran and shot and laughed and then went in the water to cool off.
They boogie boarded and enjoyed the cold water. They were brave and stayed together, laughing and jumping and riding the waves over and over again.
There were women flying kites and naked babies and little toddlers coming over to see what our kids were doing. There was kindness and teamwork and big boys sharing with little boys. There were little ones rolling over and over in the sand because they could.
There were seagulls stealing chip bags and protecting their territory, defending their loot from the other birds. This was so funny to watch.
We watched boats come in and out of the harbor and waves crashing on the rocks. We watched a police boat jet off and jet skiers following them as well and another boat that pulled a broken down boat back into the harbor.
There were volleyball players and football throwers and little ones running back and forth.
The beach is a beautiful place, filled with life and joy and movement.
This is my happy place! Where is yours?
Tired Out!!
nAMaste
